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Ross, James. "Virtual Leviathan and the New Politics of Belonging and Exclusion" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209912_index.html>

Ross, J. C. , 2007-08-30 "Virtual Leviathan and the New Politics of Belonging and Exclusion" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209912_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: �And therefore it belonged to the Commonwealth (that is, to the sovereign only),� Hobbes wrote, �to approve or disapprove both of the places and matter of foreign traffic.� State responses to international migration and ancillary flows are reshaping the politics of belonging and exclusion in ways that only interdisciplinary collaboration can begin to map. This paper argues that new virtual technologies that states are adopting to control �foreign traffic� on the margins are rapidly being deployed for maintaining order in the mainstream. Overlapping flows of international migration, human trafficking, sophisticated drug and weapons cartels, and mobile terrorist cells � to name just a few � have converged to raise the importance of the migration-security nexus, prompting huge public investments in new technologies that link the state to the flesh of its subjects. Body metaphors have long been used to �embody� the state in visceral language. Liberal states, in response to new security challenges, have now begun adopting new information technologies, such as biometrics, that codify and archive bodily and behavioral features of individuals. This return to the body � albeit in digital form � as a site of state control shifts into reverse the logic of Hobbes�s �Artificial Man� as a metaphorical body of words and images. What we are witnessing instead is the transubstantiation of the word, the body metaphor, back into the flesh. The emerging Virtual Leviathan reduces immigrants and citizens alike to �datamigrants� � flows of code � thus ushering in a new stage in the evolution and intensification of cybernetic state control and new grounds for the politics of belonging and exclusion.

Delegated Empire: Information, Networks, and Political Control of the American Colonial State in the Philippines, 1900-1913

Beyond Borders: The Political Economy of Migration and Security in International Relations

Territory, Bodies and Security: Technologies of Border Control in an Age of Globalization

Biometrics: Intersecting Borders and Bodies in Liberal Network States